Comments on: Rapping about astrobiology http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/18/rapping-about-astrobiology/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:11:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dear Canonist » Blog Archive » Devine Power http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/18/rapping-about-astrobiology/comment-page-1/#comment-174660 Dear Canonist » Blog Archive » Devine Power Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:55:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/18/rapping-about-astrobiology/#comment-174660 [...] Rapping about astrobiology (blogs.discovermagazine.com) [...] [...] Rapping about astrobiology (blogs.discovermagazine.com) [...]

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]]> By: Jessie http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/18/rapping-about-astrobiology/comment-page-1/#comment-149807 Jessie Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:18:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/18/rapping-about-astrobiology/#comment-149807 Thanks for digging this up. It's hilarious. And I thought one of the beach clips was from Contact too. Hey, I liked the LHC rap! But I actually listen to 'nerdcore', so my taste in music is tainted. With that in mind, I like ABBA too. ...crud. Now I've got Dancing Queen and the LHC rap stuck in my head simultaneously. Science is slowly making it's way into mainstream music... I think. I was in a store in the mall yesterday and I heard Pluto by Claire and the Reasons. I don't know if that's mainstream or not, but it does explain why Pluto lost it's planet status. Thanks for digging this up. It’s hilarious. And I thought one of the beach clips was from Contact too.

Hey, I liked the LHC rap! But I actually listen to ‘nerdcore’, so my taste in music is tainted. With that in mind, I like ABBA too.

…crud. Now I’ve got Dancing Queen and the LHC rap stuck in my head simultaneously.

Science is slowly making it’s way into mainstream music… I think. I was in a store in the mall yesterday and I heard Pluto by Claire and the Reasons. I don’t know if that’s mainstream or not, but it does explain why Pluto lost it’s planet status.

]]> By: Fauxnetikz http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/18/rapping-about-astrobiology/comment-page-1/#comment-149662 Fauxnetikz Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:38:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/18/rapping-about-astrobiology/#comment-149662 I made it to 1:47. I just couldn't take the background music anymore. It was the same 6 notes over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Kind of like actual rap. And hip-hop. Hence why I like VERY few songs from either genre. You can have the greatest lyrics, stage presence, message, and everything else, but if your background music is monotonous and/or annoying, you've lost me. I made it to 1:47. I just couldn’t take the background music anymore. It was the same 6 notes over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Kind of like actual rap. And hip-hop. Hence why I like VERY few songs from either genre. You can have the greatest lyrics, stage presence, message, and everything else, but if your background music is monotonous and/or annoying, you’ve lost me.

]]> By: TSFrost http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/18/rapping-about-astrobiology/comment-page-1/#comment-149620 TSFrost Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:14:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/18/rapping-about-astrobiology/#comment-149620 It's like a modern day "Schoolhouse Rock". An updated Inter-planet Janet. :) It’s like a modern day “Schoolhouse Rock”. An updated Inter-planet Janet. :)

]]> By: Bart Mitchell http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/18/rapping-about-astrobiology/comment-page-1/#comment-149520 Bart Mitchell Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:19:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/18/rapping-about-astrobiology/#comment-149520 Thats the problem with rap as an art form, it has a bad name because most of the artists choose mundane and base subject matter. It turns off so many people, they you get comments like 'I am not an aficionado of rap' It is maturing into a diverse art form with real creativity. Unfortunately, it is still burdened with the majority of the rappers talking about their cribs, hoes, and dollaz. As an aficionado of music with meaning, thanks for digging this up. Thats the problem with rap as an art form, it has a bad name because most of the artists choose mundane and base subject matter. It turns off so many people, they you get comments like ‘I am not an aficionado of rap’

It is maturing into a diverse art form with real creativity. Unfortunately, it is still burdened with the majority of the rappers talking about their cribs, hoes, and dollaz.

As an aficionado of music with meaning, thanks for digging this up.

]]> By: Quiet Desperation http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/18/rapping-about-astrobiology/comment-page-1/#comment-149473 Quiet Desperation Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:11:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/18/rapping-about-astrobiology/#comment-149473 ABBA??!?!?!!!??!??!!!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!!!!!! You can dance, you can jive, and have the time of your life, but major respect loss, there, Phil. Sorry. And double curses for now putting "Dancing Queen" in my head for probably the rest of my day. :-( ABBA??!?!?!!!??!??!!!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!!!!!!

You can dance, you can jive, and have the time of your life, but major respect loss, there, Phil. Sorry.

And double curses for now putting “Dancing Queen” in my head for probably the rest of my day. :-(

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